We started today with coffees in the hotel bar, and amazement that a hotel this posh couldn’t provide a soya latte. As I write this (31 August), I seem to recall that Elly was more upset than me about this, which is surprising because generally I’m the cantankerous old git.

My German wasn’t good enough to understand more than the gist of a newspaper article about Kärnten’s debt-explosion. (I’m now taking lessons via Lingoda: it initially assessed me at A1·2 mostly because I can’t decline articles. I like to think my vocabulary is much better.)

By the way, according to this source, Kleine Zeitung is a liberal organ, originally set up for ‘little people’ by the Catholic church. At the time I assumed it was right-wing and trying to get at Kärnten’s social democrat government. I’m such a Sessel-Sozialist!

Suitably fortified, we wandered the short distance to the Minimundus, a park with many well-made miniatures of famous buildings and structures. My notes and photos remind me that we then went back into Klagenfurt city centre and wondered around the old city wall, saw a relief map of the city and visited the Kärnten state museum.